Tag: senate

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July 22, 2013

Opinion: We are fighting the wrong battle on child marriage

by Ezebuike Temple ….section 277 of the Act supra defines a child as any one below 18 years of age, ...

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July 21, 2013

Egghead Odewale: Child marriage – Let’s elevate this discussion

by Egghead Odewale I dare say that in the face of the multitudes of adversity confronting Nigerians daily and the ...

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July 21, 2013

Opinion: Now that your 10-year-old girl is of marriageable age…

by Ayo Sogunro What the law tries to do is simple: it tries to give a woman who finds herself ...

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July 20, 2013

Femi Fani-Kayode: A nation of depraved perverts and paedophiles

by Femi Fani-Kayode …Every single member of the Nigerian Senate that voted with Yerima on that day and that supported his ...

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July 20, 2013

Opinion: Child marriage – Stealing their right to inocence

by Hannatu Musawa Every child should, at the very least have the right to grow up and every child should, ...

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July 16, 2013

Strike: Senate, ASUU, FG meeting deadlocked

The negotiations among the Senate, the Federal government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU over ...

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July 6, 2013

Half of us in the Senate own guns – Sen. Ali Ndume (WATCH)

As Nigerian Senators debated a motion to urge the parliament to stop alleged moves by Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, ...

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July 3, 2013

Our Senate is gone till September – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Now try explaining to a hungry, uneducated, bloodthirsty mob, that you did not chop government money, from ...

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June 30, 2013

Sad news: Senator Pius Ewherido is dead

by Isi Esene Senator Akpor Pius Ewherido, representing Delta Central  is dead. The senator died today at the National Hospital ...

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June 30, 2013

Opinion: Exposing the lies peddled by the UNIUYO Senate

by David Israel For the avoidance of doubt, the University of Uyo does not post students’ result online. Somebody lied. ...

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June 25, 2013

UK visa bond: Senate rejects policy, threatens to reciprocate

by Isi Esene The UK visa policy which seeks to compel visitors from ‘high risk’ countries including Nigeria to deposit 3,000 ...

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June 22, 2013

Temie Giwa: The doctor ordered primary health care (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Primary health care in Nigeria is truly horrific… Clinic filled with overworked and underpaid staff members, who ...

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June 14, 2013

Collins Uma: Legislators should leave God out of the anti-gay bill

by Collins Uma Two reasons put forward by supporters of the bill are that homosexuality is not part of our culture ...

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June 7, 2013

Single tenure: Jonathan, governors may drop second term ambition

by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan and some governors may have to forfeit their second term ambitions if the recommendation ...

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June 6, 2013

Not approved: Senate drops N4 billion first ladies’ mission house project

by Akan Ido The Senate on Wednesday approved the N259.65bn budget of the Federal Capital Territory for the 2013 fiscal ...

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June 5, 2013

Constitution amendment: Senate recommends 6-year single term for president, governors

by Isi Esene The Senate Committee on Constitution Amendment has submitted its report recommending six-year single tenure for president and governors. ...

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May 16, 2013

Confusion: Senate says GEJ has not declared state of emergency

The mandatory two days required for the National Assembly to approve the emergency rule in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states ...

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May 11, 2013

Opinion: David Mark’s Upper House of indolence

by Kikiowo Ileowo The Senate, an arm of Nigerian federal legislature as presently constituted is at best a joke of some ...

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May 2, 2013

Believe it or not: Jonathan is prepared to forgo second term – Presidency

by Isi Esene The Presidency has indicated that President Goodluck Jonathan is prepared to shelve his second term ambitions if ...

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May 1, 2013

Here we go again: Senate accuses OBJ, Yar’Adua, GEJ of “misappropriating” N1.04 trillion

by Isi Esene The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has revealed that between 2002 and 2012, the three successive governments ...

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April 13, 2013

Temie Giwa: 2015 – Who will bell the legislators? (Y! FrontPage)

In order to get 2015 right, a shift in perspective is required for us to slightly move away from our ...

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April 4, 2013

Opinion: Despite CNN selling gay marriage, I am still against it – This is why

by Olumuyiwa Ayoola    No matter how physically built a woman can be, she cannot play the role of a man ...

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February 18, 2013

Fraud: Wanted pension fund boss, Abdulrasheed Maina flees the country (PICTURED)

by Akan Ido Abdulrasheed Maina, the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) Chairman who was accused of embezzling pension funds has reportedly ...

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January 29, 2013

Senate asks FG to revoke Dana’s operating certificate

by Emmanuel Okubenji The Senate, on Tuesday, asked the federal government to revoke the operating certificate of Dana Airline. Federal ...

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January 25, 2013

President Jonathan meets with NASS leadership

by Akan Ido President Goodluck Jonathan earlier today held a closed-door meeting the leadership of the National Assembly at the ...

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January 23, 2013

“I will chase out the demons in the power sector,” Ministerial nominee tells Senate

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Kabiru Tanimu Turaki and Chinedu Osita Nebo as ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. ...

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January 9, 2013

Who wants to take this concoction? – and more, in today’s news round-up with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze I would suggest that the Senate while trying to perform its oversight duties should once in a ...

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January 4, 2013

Senate frowns at NNPC report

by Emmanuel Okubenji The Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) is unhappy at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) sales report ...

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December 23, 2012

Report details corrupt activities of Anenih, Alison-Madueke, others in transportion ministry

Tony Anenih, recently re-appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to head the board of the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, does not ...

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December 21, 2012

Senate approves $7.1bn foreign loans for FG and states

by Akan Ido The Senate yesterday approved the sum of $7.109billion for federal and state governments under the 2012-2014 Medium ...

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